Word: scowlfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patient getting some emotional outlet by saying, "Thank heavens, today is Friday and the weekend is here." There is also "facial talk": if a cat purrs when it is happy and a dog howls when its paw is stepped on, so should a man-or at any rate, scowl. From this it is.a mere step to another Salter prescription: "Contradict and attack. When you differ with someone, do not simulate agreeability...
...good backfield man ("most valuable" player in the National pro league in 1928), slim Jimmy put on a mountain of weight as a coach, and with it a fat reputation as a football man who could talk without lacing his brows into a gridiron scowl. Once when he was Cardinal coach, he limped to his feet at a sport luncheon explaining that he was bothered by 1) an old knee injury, 2) a shot of morphine to quiet the knee, 3) a double Daiquiri to quiet the morphine. His stories usually pictured his own rampaging footballers (among them Marshall Goldberg...
Theodore Roosevelt, who grew up to brandish a big stick, got an early start as a collegiate boxer. An exhibit of photographs, letters and other TRivia that opened last week in Manhattan furnished some fierce pictorial proof: a bewhiskered Teddy in his teens in fighting rig (with scowl to match) as a Harvard undergraduate...
...been done before pops up in it sooner or later. But "The Three Musketeers" goes to such ludicrous extremes that it is hilarious. Every time something violent is about to come off, a short effective thunderstorm bursts upon the scene. The heroes are always smiling, and the villains always scowl. Nary a musketeer is scratched, while red-coated fiends are run through by the score. This all sounds tiresome, but the players operate with such incredible gusto that the whole affair becomes a delightful burlesque...
Every weekday morning around 11, a stooped figure with thick glasses, a glistening bald pate and a slight scowl would step off a Broadway bus and trudge to the plain edifice that houses the New York Times. Colleagues on the Times took no offense when kindly Simeon Strunsky failed to return their elevator nods; they all knew that he was nearsighted...